Fernando Bacilio

Julius is an upper-class boy in Lima in the 1940s. He lives in a palace with his aristocratic family and extensive servants. As the years go by, Julius will gradually lose his innocence, discovering and never understanding an adult world full of inequalities and injustices.

Mel is a photographer who preferably takes pictures of trees, used hotel rooms after sexual encounters and the streets of her hometown Trujillo. After her mother dies, she learns about a large debt she has left her. In an exhibition about her city, which she has organized with some colleagues, her picture catches the attention of a woman whom Mel has already come across in her photographic expeditions on the streets. They develop a special connection while accompanying each other through their days, wandering in a black and white Trujillo.

For Renzo, a teenager from Trujillo, Peru, the days pass by on the streets and skateboard runways where he tries to master new tricks on his board. Until fate leads him to meeting Zoe, a girl who spends her afternoons drawing the dozens of telephone antennaes that cut across the city sky, and his life transforms almost imperceptibly.

A man launches a desperate search into the heart of the Amazon to find his missing girlfriend amid a rash of mysterious disappearances.

Among the hodge-podge of Peruvian government officials, there is a man named Constantino Zegarra. He doesn’t fit anywhere and looks down on his colleagues because he has never succumbed to an act of corruption and, every time he has had the opportunity to do so, he has made an effort to impede it. Over his two decades as a government official he has cultivated purity - the fuel for his soul. Now forty, this solitary soldier is a married man and father to a teenage girl who never stops reading and thinks her father is wrong. He doesn’t care what his wife and daughter think. Constantino has taken his principles to the extreme in order to prove to himself that he isnot like his father, a man who ended his days in poverty because of corruption. One morning, Constantino leaves his house and a stray bullet goes through his throat. He doesn’t die but becomes mute. After his recovery, the only thing of which he is certain is that someone from his office tried to kill him.